[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-02 Thread Brian Rak
Cool, thanks for the detailed reply. I guess I'll just have to make do with what I have for now. But if there are any Android OS developers reading, this would be a really great feature to include in the future! Brian On Aug 1, 12:38 pm, "{ Devdroid }" wrote: > On 1 August

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Rak
Richard, Thanks for the link to the article -- I hadn't seen that one. However, it doesn't address my core need, which is to have the existing version stay small, and the the new version have all resources packed inside it. Does anyone know how it actually works to publish an update with a higher

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Rak
Actually, I wanted geo-load-balancing, so I'm using a content distribution network. Plus, you have to consider re-downloads of the content over several years by existing customers. At scale, based on patterns I've seen on other platforms, I expect it to cost a couple hundred bucks a month in data t

[android-developers] Re: Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-08-01 Thread Brian Rak
Thanks for the reply. The problem with making separate apps is that existing customers will not be able to upgrade for free. And the code refactoring idea doesn't work, because the main point of the exercise is that I want the new version to contain all those resource files in the .apk itself, whic

[android-developers] Multiple concurrent versions of same app, filtered by minSdkVersion?

2010-07-31 Thread Brian Rak
Hi there, I have an app on Android Market right now with a minSdkVersion corresponding to Android 1.6. I'd like to make an update that is only visible to users of Android 2.2 and higher (there is a good reason for this, which I will explain below). So I have two questions: - First, if I publish a

[android-developers] Re: Supporting Smaller Screen Sizes

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Rak
Hi there. I too am trying to make use of the manifest directive to support both newer and older phones, but I seem to be hitting a catch-22. In order to use , you must build with the 1.6 SDK or higher. However, the output of such a build will not install on my Android 1.5 developer device. The ou